Ditto on what Tim said... had to use C/C++ \ for macros for years... always accidentally getting deleted, and causing things to break. In Julia you can use parenthesis, for macros quote ; end... I happily haven't really seen a need for them in Julia (at least yet).
On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 7:11:06 PM UTC+2, Tim Holy wrote: > > I don't understand why you can't just use parentheses for this. A key > advantage is that if you edit it to put the break at a different place, or > decide to add/eliminate a break, the expression is still valid. This is > not > true in, say, Matlab, where a statement like > x = 5 + ... 3; > is invalid. You end up having to do a lot of editing when you only want to > add/subtract/move one character (a carriage return), and for me at least, > changing the position of the line break is something I do a lot when > working > on code that has long computations. If you use parentheses, you have none > of > these problems, nor will you create bugs. > > Python, for example, recommends against their backslash line continuation > character in their style guide (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/), > > even though it's available. > > Best, > --Tim > > On Saturday, May 30, 2015 12:21:16 PM Gabriel Mihalache wrote: > > Once you spend a few days tracking down a bug due to this, you never > > forget. The idea would be to find a way to save people from this > experience. > > > > Some lines are naturally long because e.g. the equation is long or > because > > you prefer long, informative variable names. You can always use > variables > > for parts of the expression but then that just feels like working around > > poor language features/design. > >
